http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/304859-attackers-target-fail-to-down-candidate-sites
Researchers say "unsophisticated actors" tried — and failed — to take down the websites of both major presidential nominees just ahead of Election Day. In a 16-hour stretch between Sunday and Monday, the security firm Flashpoint detected four distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against the websites of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. The attacks used the same open-source tool [Mirai] that briefly knocked Twitter and The New York Times offline on Oct. 21.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/campaign-websites-under-attack/506942/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/08/was_iot_ddos_attack_just_a_dry_run_for_election_day/
(Score: 2, Informative) by nethead on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:04AM
I should add a link: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages [nether.net]
How did my SN UID end up over 3 times my /. UID?